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Historical events & facts — April 10
What happened on April 10?
On April 10, 1912, the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton on its maiden voyage to New York, with more than 2,200 passengers and crew on board. The ship, considered the largest and safest in the world, struck an iceberg four days later on April 14, and sank in under 3 hours killing more than 1,500 people. The Titanic disaster changed maritime safety regulations forever.
On April 10, 1998, the governments of Ireland, the United Kingdom and the main parties of Northern Ireland signed the Good Friday Agreement, ending 30 years of the conflict known as "The Troubles", which had caused more than 3,500 deaths. The agreement, which included power-sharing between unionists and republicans, was endorsed by referendums on both sides of the island.
On April 10, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope published the first photograph in history of a black hole — the supermassive M87, located at the centre of galaxy Messier 87, 55 million light-years from Earth. The image, obtained by coordinating eight telescopes worldwide, experimentally confirmed the existence of black holes and Einstein's general theory of relativity*.
Notable birthdays — April 10
Famous people born on April 10
Leonidas Polk
Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general, a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and founder of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America, which separated from the Episcopal Church of the United States. He was a planter in Maury County, Tennessee, and a second cousin of President James K. Polk.
Robert Burns Woodward
Robert Burns Woodward was an American organic chemist, who is considered by many to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century.
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
Marshall Warren Nirenberg was an American biochemist and geneticist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W. Holley for "breaking the genetic code" and describing how it operates in protein synthesis. In the same year, together with Har Gobind Khorana, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.
Christos Yannaras
Christos Yannaras was a Greek philosopher, Eastern Orthodox theologian and author of more than 50 books which have been translated into many languages. He was a professor emeritus of philosophy at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens.
Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek is an American writer of fiction and poetry.
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